Chapter 6: Physiosemiosis and Phytosemiosis
Chapter 6: Physiosemiosis and Phytosemiosis

Summary/Abstract: We noted in chapter 3 that Peirce, by bringing the action along with the being of signs into the focus of a thematic inquiry, took one of the decisive steps in establishing the full possibilities for developing a doctrine of signs. This step marks the difference between the contemporary development of semiotics and all earlier stages, historically speaking, of a move toward semiotic consciousness. For, while the being proper to signs exists actually only within the context of experience ( in precisely the sense that experience presupposes cognition), the action that underlies this possible being by no means presupposes cognition.

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